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height

The distance of something from the bottom of it to the top; how tall something is. The highest part of something.

height

the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top (= acme, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, top) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty the artist's gifts are at their acme at the height of her career the peak of perfection summer was at its peak ...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame the summit of his ambition so many highest superlatives achieved by man at the top of his profession (= stature) (of a standing person) the distance from head to foot (= altitude) elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface the altitude gave her a headache

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Simple sentences

She's about the same height as you.
Nikita Khrushchev was at the height of his powers.
It's the height of madness to say so.
The new houses are of a uniform height.
The actor died at the height of his popularity.
The height of the tower is above 100 meters.
What is the average height of the players?
The two mountains are of equal height.
What is the height of this mountain?
What's the height of the Empire State Building?
The teacher lined the children up in order of height.
He's almost six feet in height.
Rank boys according to their height.
The fountain sends hot water to a height of 170 feet.
The man was of normal height.
He is six feet in height.
She and I are about the same height.
Tom and Jim are the same height.

Movie subtitles

Over time, the effect was to raise productivity, incomes, nutrition and even height.
In contrast, by turning away from foreign trade and intensifying rice cultivation, the Chinese were stuck with rising population, falling incomes and declining nutrition, height and productivity.
And you are the perfect height to pair with Phillip's friend, Daniel, who stopped growing after being a kid gymnast.
Yeah, when it's the height of summer?
Ray Neilson, Neil Bloom and two others of similar height and build.
And your fundal height measures up perfectly with your dates.
Weighs in at sixty pounds, height at shoulder fourteen inches.
From the height of the ramparts, the people of Byzantium fearfully saw the enormous army of the Muslims advance.
In 15 minutes, the storm should be at its height.
It was quite different then. The exhibition was at its height.
I want to see how your height would be with Miss Bennett.
Heart, lungs, height, weight, index.
It's no good at this height.
Children, old people a young girl at the height of her loveliness.
For this we needed new scale-indicators in azimuth and height, corresponding to the horizontal and vertical movements of the telescope.
Height: about five foot ten.
Sheer cliffs 1000 to 1500 feet in height and running out of sight in either direction.
That was different. The Exhibition was at its height.
They're about your height, wearing gray topcoats.
Now all we have to do is check your height and weight.
He has dark brown hair, blue eyes, height about six feet two, no hat, around 25 years old.
Looks like it's the right height. Yeah.
The face powder around your coat tells me of her height and her affection for you.
But the distance and the man's height?
Even at that enormous height we see the age-old, respected picture of the farmer ploughing and reaping his crops.
The Height of Spring.
When I have you in my arm your height is according to regulations. - Is that necessary?
Such a height!
January's the height of the deb season, and the little darlings might be interested.
You have to get some height ahead of the beaters.
Computed height, 6200 feet.
When I have you in my arm your height is according to regulations.
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit to his full height.
Geiger's in his early 40s medium height fattish soft all over, Charlie Chan mustache well-dressed wears a black hat affects a knowledge of antiques and hasn't any and I think his left eye is glass.
At this height?
Now, the distance above the ground to the first break stipulates a leg span of at least such height.

News and current affairs

He was presumably acknowledging that the Fund had it wrong when it criticized Malaysia for imposing such controls at the height of the Asian crisis.
Akihito's trip, which came at the height of Japan's pro-China foreign policy, was followed by increased Japanese aid, investment, and technology transfer, thereby cementing Japan's role in China's economic rise.
This would seem like the height of cynicism, which of course it is.
Family members might share many physical features, such as height, skin tone, or hair color.
There are roughly 23,000 nuclear weapons today, which is 40,000 fewer than at the Cold War's height. These weapons' total yield is greater than 150,000 Hiroshima-size nuclear explosions.
As much as I loved playing basketball, I was destined never quite to reach six feet in height.
Global stockpiles have dropped from 68,000 warheads at the height of the Cold War to 20,000 today.
At the height of the migrant crisis, it hoped, for once, to receive some.
Many North Koreans are already malnourished, their body weight and height substantially lower than that of South Koreans.
Our efforts to establish a regional security and cooperation arrangement in the Persian Gulf date back to 1986, at the height of the war with Iraq.
Two Australian Football League teams have hinted that they are looking into tests that would indicate an athlete's likely height, stamina, speed, and strength.
To be sure, at the height of the crisis, the combined effect of fiscal stimulus and massive monetary easing had a big impact in preventing a credit freeze and limiting the downward spiral in asset prices and real economic activity.
At the end of 2000, at the height of the Internet stock boom and just before the 2001 crash, the economists James Glassman and Kevin Hassett published Dow 36,000.
Consider, moreover, that at the height of the Arab-Israeli conflict in 1973, Egypt's armed forces stood at one million troops.
LONDON - At the height of the Arab uprisings last spring, many Europeans were gripped by nightmare visions of a tsunami of migrants crashing against the continent's shores.
That was at the height of the peace process.
But genes are only one of many factors that influence height and age at first birth.
Even when we focus on a simple physical trait like height, natural selection in humans turns out to be a multifaceted and nuanced process.
The market prices of most RMBS rebounded as losses due to homeowners simply abandoning their properties were much lower than had been feared at the height of the crisis.
In the end, the US authorities even made a small profit on the assets that they had acquired at the height of the crisis.
Indeed, at the height of the fighting for control of the northern town of Rutshuru last October, the IRC teams that were stationed there decided to evacuate temporarily because the risk was simply too great.
Madi's earnings help him keep his children in school, even at the height of the cotton harvest.
FRANKFURT - At the height of the financial crisis in 2008-2009, it seemed as if Western banks would pull up their foreign stakes and go home, leaving financial markets much more fragmented along national lines.
Even at the height of global trade expansion in 2002-2007, exports (in value-added terms) accounted for only a little more than one-quarter of GDP growth, whereas domestic investment contributed a substantially larger share.
Heat shortages at the height of this year's bitter winter left more than 60 people dead, and Iran is perhaps the only major oil producer whose population claims that economic conditions have worsened despite a tripling of oil prices.
When the Cold War was at its height, and the threat from Russia at its most extreme, the West seemed to welcome Turkey's advances.

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